Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset Reviews

Review score: 8.6/10 – Updated November, 2024

Latest Price: £2728.99 – Save 6% (RRP: £2898.99)

Take a look now to discover what makes Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset worthy of a review score of 8.6 out of 10.

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Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset features

Quality

Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Wheels. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset.

The first thing is material. Looking at what Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.

Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Wheels. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.

There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Wheels. Brands like Zipp are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.

Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Wheels category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.

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Comparing Prices

Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Wheels.

It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.

Price of Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset.

We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £2728.99 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 8.2 out of 10 for price.

Average price of Wheels

Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Wheels.

We found 509 in the Wheels category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £731.16, making it above average at £2728.99.

It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Wheels. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £3489.49, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £5.99.

With 509 products available we worked out that 3 cost more than Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset and 505 were cheaper.

Cost of Zipp products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 67 products from Zipp, of which 48 were in the Wheels category.

For now though we’re looking at Zipp branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £1201.11 making this product above average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Zipp product we found was £12.99 and the highest price we could find from them was £3489.49.

Of the 67 from Zipp, 3 were more expensive than Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset and 63 were cheaper.

How much are Zipp Wheels?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Zipp products that are listed in the Wheels category.

The average price of the 48 products that match this search was £1624.02, with the cheapest coming in at £469.99 and highest price was £3489.49. With the average being £1624.02, Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset comes in above average.

3 products that meet this search were more expensive than Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset and 44 were cheaper.

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Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset Reviews

Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.

There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.

1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.

2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.

Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.7 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Wheels category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.3 out of 5.

Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset or another similar product, like Zipp 404 Firecrest Clincher DB White Wheels reviews or Zipp 404 Firecrest Tubular Road Wheelset reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Wheels.

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Brand

As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Wheels. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Zipp, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.

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YouTube Video of Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset reviews.

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Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road Wheelset. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 8.6/10 overall.

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Further product details

• Product ID 1: 25350694351
• Product ID 2: 728231UK
• Brand: Zipp
• RRP: £2898.99
• Description: Zipp 454 NSW Carbon Clincher Road WheelsetThis Zipp 454 wheelset is an evolution in the world of competitive road wheels. Sporting a rim design that has been loaded with the latest in Zipp’s racing technological advances, the added aerodynamic finesse and drag reduction leads to exceptional rider stability and a more efficient power transfer to the road. Wind-tunnel tested, these wheels are built to handle strong crosswinds with ease, transferring more power output from the rider to the road than any other wheelset on the market.Exceptional Ratchet EfficiencyAt the heart of these 454 NSW wheels is Zipp’s Cognition hubset which comfortably rides the cutting edge in hub design. Whereas a conventional hub effectively functions as a¬†drum brake once the rider stops pedalling and begins to coast, the¬†Cognition hubs disengage the ratchets via powerful internal magnets, effectively putting the bike in neutral gear. The moment you rotate the pedals forward, the ratchet re-engages and applies your¬†power instantly.Features: Material:¬†Rim: Carbon; Hub: Alloy Rim Model:¬†X454NSW Rim Depth:¬†53/58mm Rim Inner Width:¬†17mm Rim External Width:¬†26.4mm Rim Surface:¬†ABLC HexFin Technology Spokes:¬†Sapim CX-Ray Spoke Count:¬†24 Spoke Lacing:¬†2-cross Max Tyre Pressure:¬†125 psi Hub:¬†Cognition Speed:¬†11-Speed Weight:¬†835gTechnology: Cognition:¬†The ultimate in Zipp hub technology. Every time a conventional hub set starts to coast, friction within the freehub ratchet mechanism works like a drum brake to slow the rider down. The drag between hub shell and driver body during coasting is considered an efficiency loss, especially for road wheels. High drag also can significantly contribute to chain-dropping issues. The drag torque drives the cassette clockwise so the chain gets loose on the load side. The solution? The rear Cognition hub with AxialClutch technology reduces drag by disengaging the ratchet mechanism when coasting. It then uses magnets to re-engage once the rider starts pedalling. Showstopper:¬†Showstopper is a complimenting pairing of a directional, moulded-in, texture with silicon carbide particles suspended in the surface resin. ¬†The current media blast process applied to all Zipp rims increases the surface roughness of the brake track providing the rider with consistent and responsive braking. In order to improve this for the wettest of rides, Zipp has introduced a moulded-in groove specifically tuned for the Zipp Tangente Platinum Pro EVO Brake Pad. The grooves have been optimized to interact with the leading edge (relative to the rotation of the wheel) of the brake pad and the four cooling channels. The leading edge of the pad and first two channels efficiently wipe water and debris outward, cleaning and drying the braking surface, while the second two cooling channels have maximum interference with the grooves allowing greater braking force than a smooth rim. The cleaning effects of the groove and pad interaction improve brake feel and consistency even in dry conditions. ImPress:¬†Zipp’s ImPress graphics technology prints graphics directly on the wheel, which allows the dimples to do what they were designed to achieve, to control vortex shedding and the rate at which air sheds off the wheel. Managing this is crucial to stability. ImPress graphics also give NSW a distinctive stealthy look. Hexfin Aerodynamic Boundary Layer Control (ABLC):¬†The Sawtooth dimple design consists of 12 nodes that are specifically clocked to start aerodynamic shearing at a rate of 50hz at a rider speed of 20mph. Sawtooth accomplishes this by inducing small sheet vortices that shed at a low magnitude, but at a higher natural frequency, thus decreasing the laminar bubble effect on the aerodynamically shielded side of the rim’s profile to further reduce high yaw drag and improve crosswind stability.Buy¬†Zipp Wheels & Tyres¬†from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
• Full Category: Wheels & Tyres > Wheels
• Savings percentage from RRP: 6%
• Size: Shimano
• Unisex
• 170
• Adult

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